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Can you sell a haunted house?


Can you sell a haunted house?

Massachusetts has a law stating that you do not have to tell somebody that your house is haunted before selling it. However, if somebody specifically asks if a property is haunted, you still can’t lie about it.
The fact or suspicion that real property may be or is psychologically impacted shall not be deemed to be a material fact required to be disclosed in a real estate transaction. “Psychologically impacted shall mean an impact being the result of facts or suspicions including, but not limited to, the following:

(c) that the real property has been the site of an alleged parapsychological or supernatural phenomenon.

No cause of action shall arise or be maintained against a sellor or lessor of real property or a real estate broker or salesman, by statute or at common law, for failure to disclose to a buyer or tenant that the real property is or was psychologically impacted.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this section shall not authorize a seller, lessor or real estate broker or salesman to make a misrepresentation of fact or false statement.
MGL c. 93 § 114. The law was passed in 1998.

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